With the Euro 2016 tournament now drawing to a close, and having two kids of my own in a competitive soccer league, even a French husband; I now live and breathe football (or soccer depending on your frame of reference) almost every single day. Soccer, much like today’s businesses, has begun to embrace the world of big data. The key method of judging how well a player or team will perform throughout the course of a game or even throughout the season is beginning to sh...

  As part of a POC of Talend v6.1 Big Data capabilities, I was asked by one of our long-time customers, a major e-commerce company, to present a solution for aggregating huge files of clickstream data on Hadoop. The input data was a giant clickstream file (larger than 100GB, or even terabytes) from a website. Our goal was to aggregate the file and add a session ID column. We needed to create session records for all u...

  February is here and it seems that everyone has made their predictions (even me!) for what’s ahead for technology in 2016. As I read through the various predictions lists, I started discovering a common theme: the inclusion of real-time data initiatives as a main priority for IT. Real-time streaming data and analyt...

Hadoop and the broader Big Data ecosystem continue to innovate at an incredible rate. By harnessing the power of the community and creating a survival-of-the-fittest competitive landscape, the open-source development approach helps not only fuel the pace of innovation but also drive buyer confidence and market adoption. Open source is also important to a growing number of developers who are moving away from proprietary software looking for greater efficiency...

Le numérique et les nouvelles technologies transforment aujourd’hui en profondeur le secteur de la santé et bouleversent les parcours de soins et le travail du personnel soignant. Télémédecine, services e-santé, dossier médical en ligne, prescriptions électroniques, hôpital numérique, l’état a annoncé de nombreuses initiatives en plus d’une stratégie nationale e-santé 2020. Néanmoins, il reste de nombreuses questions à résoudre avant que la transformation numérique du...

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Hadoop's Big Data processing platforms feature two integration modes that correspond to different types of usage, but are being used interchangeably with increasing frequency. "Batch" or "asynchronous" mode enables the programming of typically overnight processing. Examples of using batch mode include a bank branch integrating the day's deposits into its books, a distributor using or updating a...